"...Day's R&D team are strong contributors to the open source world, with a development model based on building true open source communities around key technology advancements that originate in Day R&D through the sponsorship of new projects via the Apache Software Foundation..."

"...Given that leading role there, news that Adobe is acquiring Day takes on an added significance..."

"...Adobe's acquisition of so much free software coding talent offers hope that some open source savvy will percolate through the company, turning Adobe into as much of an ally as Day was. However, the lack of any comment about continuing to support open source projects and the people who work on them at Day is worrying. If it does intend to allow its new staff to carry on as before, Adobe would be well-advised to make some public commitments to that effect..."

"When you try to solve a problem, you begin by concentrating on obvious facts and familiar solutions, to see if the answer lies there. This is a mostly left-brain stage of attack. If the answer doesnt come, the right and left hemispheres of the brain activate together. Neural networks on the right side scan remote memories that could be vaguely relevant. A wide range of distant information that is normally tuned out becomes available to the left hemisphere, which searches for unseen patterns, alternative meanings, and high-level abstractions."

"Having glimpsed such a connection, the left brain must quickly lock in on it before it escapes. The attention system must radically reverse gears, going from defocused attention to extremely focused attention. In a flash, the brain pulls together these disparate shreds of thought and binds them into a new single idea that enters consciousness. This is the aha! moment of insight, often followed by a spark of pleasure as the brain recognizes the novelty of what its come up with."

Also, the brain goes into a creativity turbo mode and locks out any distractions by deactivating the right-temporoparietal junction when improvising. However, that turbo mode only kicks in when you are highly trained/skilled in the field that you are improvising in. In this context, doing intensive
Po thinking
in any field probably qualifies as "improvising", I would think.

"Some time ago I switched from Narwhal to Ringo and never looked back. I strongly believe that Ringo is the preeminent CommonJS implementation."

"Ringo is mature, stable and crash free. Ringo is the evolution of
Helma,
one of the first server side JavaScript platforms (more than 10 years in development)."

"Access to the gazillion of Java libraries. There is no merit in reinventing the wheel, just reuse code from the Java ecosystem. The integration between Java and JavaScript is seamless."

"Thanks to AppengineJS you can run your Ringo applications on Google's scalable infrastructure." [actually, you can
do that with Ringo out-of-the-box,
but with AppengineJS you get the ported Python SDK APIs, which is nice, of course]

And his conclusion: "Stop drinking the Kool-Aid! Stop playing with toys. Engineer your application on top of a mature, conformant and compatible platform:
RingoJS."

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